Scott Bosley on WVU Visiting Committee

Scott Bosley, Beacon Journal managing editor in the 1970s, is among 28 members of the West Virginia University Visiting Committee who return to Morgantown to give current students advice about today’s world of communications.

Scott, a WVU Journalism School and Keyser (WV) High School grad, retired a year or so ago as executive director of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Scott and wife Carol lived in Bethesda, Maryland during his decade with ASNE, whose offices are across the river in Reston, Virginia.

Scott spent more than 30 years with Knight-Ridder newspapers, including the BJ; Detroit Free Press; Knight Ridder Tribune Information Services; Journal of Commerce, as editor; and  Gary, Indiana, Post-Tribune, as publisher. 

Scott and Carol retired to Kalamazoo, Michigan, near daughter Julie, who does promotional work at Kellogg's in Battle Creek. 

Scott and Carol’s two grandchildren and son Jeff are in the San Francisco Bay Area where Jeff is a labor and employment lawyer for Chicago-based Winston & Strawn.

Scott and another BJ newsroom retiree, one-time BJ sports columnist Tom Melody, also a WVU Journalism graduate, are in the Keyser High School Hall of Fame. Tom and his wife still live in Norton.

There have been tons of posts about Scott on the BJ Alums blog. Click on http://bjretirees.blogspot.com/search?q=scott+bosley to see them.